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Is "OC Genie" any good?

I know how to overclock my self but I am not very good at it and don't have the patience to refine my OC.

 

My motherboard supports OC Genie and I was wondering if it would be worth using/investigating?

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Wouldn't bother with it (i have an MSI board too)

Just learn how to OC and you should be well 

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All those 'easy one-click overclocking software' the mobo manufacturers provide are mainly for marketing purpose and does more harm than good.

 

Best to OC yourself.

That is actually false.

The Auto-Overclock feature provided with Asus motherboards is great and you can achieve basically the same overclock you might achieve with a manual overclock.

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I've heard it puts too much voltage and it's a lot better to just do it yourself.

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All those 'easy one-click overclocking software' the mobo manufacturers provide are mainly for marketing purpose and does more harm than good.

 

Best to OC yourself.

I have heard of mixed happenings.

 

Some people got a decent OC some terrible.

 

I will check it when I get home just to see what it's like, if I don't like it then I will just revert back to what I had it at.

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As I said I know how to but how was your experience with it?

I never tried it because i just made the jump into manual OC xD (even tho my OC is pretty terrible for my 290x :C) 

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Well, using OC Genie might not hurt but..... Overclocking manually is better.

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I never tried it because i just made the jump into manual OC xD (even tho my OC is pretty terrible for my 290x :C) 

OC Genie overclocks your GPU too?

 

Awesome!

 

But I meant for mostly CPU OCs..

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OC Genie overclocks your GPU too?

 

Awesome!

 

But I meant for mostly CPU OCs..

Well my H series MSI mobo has a OC genie button so i can only assume that it OCs my GPU too....

Actually im not too sure xD

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Well my H series MSI mobo has a OC genie button so i can only assume that it OCs my GPU too....

Actually im not too sure xD

If it did, probably only MSI GPUs to prevent mishaps.

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If it did, probably only MSI GPUs to prevent mishaps.

MSI motherboards can auto overclock MSI GPUs only, OC Genie was fine for me I got 4.3GHz out of it and hit 39 degrees C under load

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If it did, probably only MSI GPUs to prevent mishaps.

True! That's quite a smart guess actually. To prevent other companies from sueing them xD

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I understand business ;)

Nice :) 

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As was already said, don't bother with it. I tried it out to see what it can do.

 

Gear 1 - 4GHz something like 1.2 volts or something stupid (right now I'm running at 4GHz on 1V)

Gear 2 - 4.2GHz again, something like 1.2 volts and it was unstable, which is kinda odd considering 4.5GHz was stable on 1.2v  :huh:

 

 

Pretty poor tbh.

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Personal experience for me not bad but you can very definetly push it further doing it all manually.

 

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With OC GENIE -> 4.4 GHz @ 1.2 V

 

Manual -> 4.6 GHz @ 1.22 V

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It can be okay.

My old motherboard had "OC Genie Light" from 2008 or so. It worked okay on my Phenom II, but did not work very well on my 8350. (The motherboard was patched for AM3+ support so this isn't a huge surprise)

Most auto-OC stuff will generally produce a stable over lock these days, but isn't as finely tuned as a manual OC. It's an okay option, but I would recommend at least using the OC genie and then manually dialing the voltage down while testing stability.

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